By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Northern Mockingbird, Richard W. DeKorte Park, Bergen, New Jersey, United States. “I love how it’s ‘song’ includes sirens. The reason why became obvious as I listened to sirens coming from...
The International Criminal Court decision to issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant is an important indicator of the solidification of international opinion against the openly genocidal state of Israel. At the end of the post, we have...
The Financial Times has a new story on one of RFK, Jr.s’ plans, should he be approved as chairman of the Department of Health and Human Services. He is threatening to end Medicare and presumably also Medicaid’s use of the...
Yves here. We published a piece, Populism and State Power, by Tony Lynch earlier this year. His latest offering reflects some deep thinking about what the fundamental essence of politics really is. Hopefully this post will generate similarly serious pondering...
Yves here. This piece is so science-illiterate and otherwise incoherent that I thought our physics and chemistry-knowledgeable readers would have particular fun picking it apart. Even a mere high school nerd, it’s not hard to see through what a complete...
Locking up the butter in Russia (CNN). Official inflation in October was 0.8% m/m (annualize that and it’s about 10%. That’s the official inflation rate. The ex post rate is around 11% then. Taking the CBR’s expected inflation rate of...
Since the incoming administration has indicated the deportations will start on day one, I thought it of use to consider the sectoral impacts of a policy of mass deportation (aside from macro based ones as discussed here). First, I consider...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, yesterday was the complex maneuvering preparatory to travel. Today is the lurching and jolting of actual travel, hopefully arriving at a full complement of Water Cooler items. –lambert Bird Song of the Day...
Yves here. I suspect readers will find this piece on America losing, or perhaps more accurately, sabotaging its empire to be frustrating. But as Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway once said, “The good thing about someone else’s prejudices is that...
